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Cooperation in Industrial Systems
ARCHON is an ongoing ESPRIT II project (P-2256) which is approximately half way through its five year duration. It is concerned with defining and applying techniques from the area of Distributed Artificial Intelligence to the development of real-size industrial applications. Such techniques enable multiple problem solvers (e.g. expert systems, databases and conventional numerical software systems) to communicate and cooperate with each other to improve both their individual problem solving behavior and the behavior of the community as a whole. This paper outlines the niche of ARCHON in the Distributed AI world and provides an overview of the philosophy and architecture of our approach the essence of which is to be both general (applicable to the domain of industrial process control) and powerful enough to handle real-world problems
Metamodel Instance Generation: A systematic literature review
Modelling and thus metamodelling have become increasingly important in
Software Engineering through the use of Model Driven Engineering. In this paper
we present a systematic literature review of instance generation techniques for
metamodels, i.e. the process of automatically generating models from a given
metamodel. We start by presenting a set of research questions that our review
is intended to answer. We then identify the main topics that are related to
metamodel instance generation techniques, and use these to initiate our
literature search. This search resulted in the identification of 34 key papers
in the area, and each of these is reviewed here and discussed in detail. The
outcome is that we are able to identify a knowledge gap in this field, and we
offer suggestions as to some potential directions for future research.Comment: 25 page
Generic task problem solvers in Soar
Two trends can be discerned in research in problem solving architectures in the last few years. On one hand, interest in task-specific architectures has grown, wherein types of problems of general utility are identified, and special architectures that support the development of problem solving systems for those types of problems are proposed. These architectures help in the acquisition and specification of knowledge by providing inference methods that are appropriate for the type of problem. However, knowledge based systems which use only one type of problem solving method are very brittle, and adding more types of methods requires a principled approach to integrating them in a flexible way. Contrasting with this trend is the proposal for a flexible, general architecture contained in the work on Soar. Soar has features which make it attractive for flexible use of all potentially relevant knowledge or methods. But as the theory Soar does not make commitments to specific types of problem solvers or provide guidance for their construction. It was investigated how task-specific architectures can be constructed in Soar to retain as many of the advantages as possible of both approaches. Examples were used from the Generic Task approach for building knowledge based systems. Though this approach was developed and applied for a number of problems, the ideas are applicable to other task-specific approaches as well
Resilience: Accounting for the Noncomputable
Plans to solve complex environmental problems should always consider the role of surprise. Nevertheless, there is a tendency to emphasize known computable aspects of a problem while neglecting aspects that are unknown and failing to ask questions about them. The tendency to ignore the noncomputable can be countered by considering a wide range of perspectives, encouraging transparency with regard to conflicting viewpoints, stimulating a diversity of models, and managing for the emergence of new syntheses that reorganize fragmentary knowledg
Extending ACL2 with SMT Solvers
We present our extension of ACL2 with Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT)
solvers using ACL2's trusted clause processor mechanism. We are particularly
interested in the verification of physical systems including Analog and
Mixed-Signal (AMS) designs. ACL2 offers strong induction abilities for
reasoning about sequences and SMT complements deduction methods like ACL2 with
fast nonlinear arithmetic solving procedures. While SAT solvers have been
integrated into ACL2 in previous work, SMT methods raise new issues because of
their support for a broader range of domains including real numbers and
uninterpreted functions. This paper presents Smtlink, our clause processor for
integrating SMT solvers into ACL2. We describe key design and implementation
issues and describe our experience with its use.Comment: In Proceedings ACL2 2015, arXiv:1509.0552
The Living Application: a Self-Organising System for Complex Grid Tasks
We present the living application, a method to autonomously manage
applications on the grid. During its execution on the grid, the living
application makes choices on the resources to use in order to complete its
tasks. These choices can be based on the internal state, or on autonomously
acquired knowledge from external sensors. By giving limited user capabilities
to a living application, the living application is able to port itself from one
resource topology to another. The application performs these actions at
run-time without depending on users or external workflow tools. We demonstrate
this new concept in a special case of a living application: the living
simulation. Today, many simulations require a wide range of numerical solvers
and run most efficiently if specialized nodes are matched to the solvers. The
idea of the living simulation is that it decides itself which grid machines to
use based on the numerical solver currently in use. In this paper we apply the
living simulation to modelling the collision between two galaxies in a test
setup with two specialized computers. This simulation switces at run-time
between a GPU-enabled computer in the Netherlands and a GRAPE-enabled machine
that resides in the United States, using an oct-tree N-body code whenever it
runs in the Netherlands and a direct N-body solver in the United States.Comment: 26 pages, 3 figures, accepted by IJHPC
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